Current News for Transport and storage

A City Rail guard who investigated reports of a door being held open – and ended up knocked unconscious – was later told by management he did not do enough to “diffuse the situation.”

A Western Sydney warehouse has been caught out dangerously modifying trolleys to boost productivity.

Rail operators in Melbourne are bringing their training up to speed after unions raised concerns about hazardous materials being transported on suburban lines.

Two companies and their management have been handed $297,000 worth of fines after a forklift driver was killed at a Sydney warehouse four years ago.

Large companies using trucking services will not be able to set unreasonable deadlines on drivers in a bid to stem the seventy deaths on NSW roads each year in the industry.

Allowing labourers to perform electrical work on Sydney’s train lines threatens the safety of the public and workers, according to rail workers.

Storeman at a Sydney firm have scored a shorter working week for the same pay after tearing up their individual contracts and demanding the right to strike a collective agreement

A violent passenger took 28 seconds to tear down a ‘safety screen’, meant to protect bus drivers in Perth, before attacking the driver, leaving him off work for several days.

Fast food giant, McDonalds, is at the centre of a health scare that claimed 103 NSW lives, last year.

Management forced a postie to sign a medical release as he lay "doped up" in hospital after an accident where he had been left on his own by Australia Post management.

A $55,000 fine imposed on a transport operator whose driver was incinerated on the Pacific Highway has sparked calls for Workcover to go after the "Mr Bigs" of road transport.

RailCorp tested a Sydney train driver on letter shapes, personality and computer game style skills in a bid to measure whether he was suitable to continue as a train driver.

An 82-year-old passenger of a luxury rail operator died after falling from a train in the middle of the South Australian outback.

A fishing boat skipper, described as "a latter-day Captain Bligh", bullied a 19-year-old deckhand to the point where he jumped overboard.

Qantas workers at Melbourne Airport that have been spat on, punched and kicked have hailed a move by Qantas to trial distress buttons as a "small step" to combating passenger "air rage".

Retail giant Woolworths has been put on notice after a Queensland trucking company was found guilty of allowing truck drivers to exceed maximum driving hours

Three days of "hell" have won Sydney commuters a safer system.

A State Rail guard was dragged along a platform at Mortdale in Sydney’s south last November, resulting in a fine of just under $150 000.

The peak NSW union body has expressed concern after the apparent wiping of a security video that showed evidence of an assault upon a rail worker.

ATM’s across NSW could run out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash because of penny pinching by security companies in the lead up to Christmas.

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